If the mobile fanboy war didn’t already have enough fuel keeping the fires going, a new report from an unlikely source is about to fan the flames. Whereas once Apple devices were the fruits of nefarious, pilfering labor, Samsung devices are now the sought-after prize.

A new report from the San Francisco Chronicle claims that muggers are now focusing more on stealing Samsung products than they are on Apple devices. A captain of San Francisco’s Tenderloin police department, Joe Garrity, says that while iPhones are still the most stolen electronic device in the area, Samsung devices are rapidly closing in.

He stated that half of the robberies in the district are of electronic devices, and almost half of those are iPhones. However, Samsung devices — specifically of the Galaxy line (though that covers quite a bit of different devices, lately) — are, as Will Smith would put it, the new hotness.

Garrity doesn’t quite weigh in on the fortunes of either company, or any of the devices’ feature sets, but simply notes that thieves are stealing what’s currently trending. Considering Samsung has been releasing new devices more frequently than Apple lately, this makes logical sense. A hot new device is generally sought after, so fences would want to stock them more than older ones.

Unfortunately, Garrity has noticed a new trend in device theft. Rather than a subtle, sneaky approach, thieves are now straight up hitting people and swiping their belongings. If Samsung were an edgy advertiser, it could say its devices are so desirable that people are literally fighting over them.

More interesting than the methods by which hooligans perform muggings, though, is that there isn’t yet some kind of solution built into mobile devices that would dissuade criminals from targeting them. Sure, phones and laptops have tracking software, but a criminal with know-how could shut it off, or at least know not to get in front of a camera that may be remotely spying on them. Some kind of dead man’s switch, or remote kill switch, would most likely lower theft rates of devices on which they’re equipped. If a mugger knows you’ll just nuke the phone and render it completely useless whenever you get home post-mugging, there’d be no reason to gank it in the first place. Of course, there are a load of issues that could arise from a kill switch, such as an accidental trigger from buggy components.

Garrity notes that, since these devices don’t have the best of precautionary measures, that it’s up to us to take precautions. Rather than blithely walk around with our music turned up to max and our phones out while we text, we should pay more attention to our surroundings, and probably not wave our phones around and cut off our sense of hearing in areas where that’d be a bad idea.

For now, though, if you have an iPhone, muggers might be getting bored with your device.